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\1? VOL. XXXIV. No. 14
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Sign
ing of the railroad pension bill by
President Roosevelt and a
The pension
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The pensions act provides for de
duction of 2 per cent from workers'
salaries and 4 per cent from carriers'
payrolls to set up a fund which is
expected to consist of at least $90,
000,000 a year.
This fund will be administered by
a three-man commission appointed by
the president. One commissioner will
be selected from railroad labor, one
from management and the third will
represent the public.
Factory Employment Shows
Small Drop in Two States
Philadelphia (ILNS)—The number
of wage earners employed by Penn
sylvania factories showed a fraction
al drop while the amount paid in
wages increased 5 per cent from
April to May, the Philadelphia Fed
eral Reserve Bank reports. These
changes compare quite favorably
with the average changes between
April and May in the last 11 years.
Factories in Delaware as a whole
reported declines of less than 1 per
cent in employment, and over 1 per
cent in payrolls and operating time
from April to May.
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Steps For Rail Labor
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cent wage restoration made July 1
a day of rejoicing for more than a
million railroad workers and their
families.
and- the "wage
restoration mean increased employ
ment and increased purchasing power
for many thousands of workers. The
pension act will retire 100,000 men
on pensions this year, giving jobs to
100,000 unemployed men, and the
wage restoration means a $4,000,000
monthly pay increase.
The wage incraese, affecting 1,300,
000 men, was provided in an agree
ment reached between the railrooad
labor organizations and the manage
ments in April. On January 1 the
workers will receive another 2% per
cent and on April 1, 1935, the remain
ing 5 per cent of the original 10 per
cent pay reduction of two years ago
will be restored.
The pension act was hailed by A.
F. Whitney, retiring chairman of the
Railway Labor Executive Associa
tion, as one of the finest pieces of
railroad legislation since the eight
hour day was won in 1916.
"Railroad men feel that they have
obtained two great concessions in the
wage restoration and the pension
legislation," Whitney said at Clevel
and.
"The first increases our purchasing
power by $4,000,000 a month," the
labor executive continued. "On the
basis of May payrolls, the increase
will mean an increases of $16,000,000
monthly by next April.
"The pension law, which becomes
effective in 90 days, will permit re
tirement of 100,000 men this year
alone. Not only will this take care
of the men who have broken down in
railroad service, but it will help the
unemployment problem by elevating
the young man who is looking for the
opportunity to work."
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Men will be eligible for retirement
on reaching 65, completion of 30
years' service with a carrier, or for
disability.
In signing the railroad pension bill,
the president said the measure was
"in line with sound social policy,"
though he criticized it as "crudely
drawn" and expressed the opinion
that it would require amendment at
the next session of congress.
Besides holding that the Mil is
"sound" socially, the president fur
ther approved it because he believes
the actual burdens will be "far less"
than estimated because retirement
will improve railroad "morale" and
because the bill provides for the cre
ation of a board to recommend
changes looking to a permanent sys
tem.
ORE WINERS'
Unions Win Strike For
Higher Wages
Birmingham, Ala.—C. L. Richard
son, conciliator of the U. S. Depart
ment of Labor, announced an agree
ment between the metal miners' un
ions and the Tennessee Coal, Iron &
Railway Co., which settled a two
months' ore miners' strike and paved
the way for the return to work of
2,500 miners who walked out on May
when company officials refused
wages and working conditions simi
lar to those awarded Alabama coal
miners under the bituminous coal
code.
Mr. Richardson announced that he
was carrying on negotiations looking
toward settlement of differences be
tween 2,000 other ore miners on strike
from three other companies.
The settlement involves wage in
creases ranging from a maximum of
5 cents per hour for less skilled work
ers to a minimum of 3 cents per hour
for higher skilled labor, and a re
classification of miners so as to les
sen the differential between wages
of the lowest and the highest paid.
During the strike four men were
killed, a score or more injured. Na
tional Guardsmen were on duty from
the first week of the controversy.
BAN ON PICKETING
UPHELD
Albany, N. Y. (ILNS)—The court
of appeals, by a 5 to 2 vote, has just
held that trade unions have no right
to peacefully picket distribution
points of a manufacturer who is ex
periencing labor troubles. The deci
sion was based on an action brought
by George F. Stuhmer & Co., Brook
lyn bakers, seeking to restrain labor
unions from picketing groceries sell
ing its products because it was "de
stroying the groceries' business," and
in effect, was an "illegal secondary
boycott." The decision confirmed the
orders of the lower courts granting
injunctions restraining labor unions
from picketing distribution points.
$4,000,000 Monthly Wage
Boost Won By Railroad Men
Cleveland, Ohio.—Over $4,000,000
monthly increase in wages for rail
way employes throughout the United
States became effective July 1.
The increase in pay, affecting 1,
030,000 men employed on the nation's
carriers in every capacity except ex
ecutive, constitutes a 2% per cent sal
ary restoration provided for in an
agreement reached between labor and
management on April 26.
Next January 1 the railroaders will
receive another 2% per cent, and on
April 1, 1935, the remaining 5 per cent
of the original 10 per cent pay cut
of two years ago will be restored.
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New York City (ILNS)—That the
principle of collective bargaining be
fully recognized by industry as essen
tial to justice and fair dealing is urg
ed by the executive council of the
Federal Council of Churches in a
statement on "The Present State of
Industrial Relations." The statement
was issued in view of the existing
tension between labor and manage
ment in industry, the council said.
The statement deplores the ten
dency among employers to hinder in
dustrial workers in the exercise of
free choice with reference to their
representatives in collective bargain
ing and the widespread refusal of
employers to deal with the represen
tatives of organizel labor. The de
mand of labor to be represented by
persons in its own employ rather than
in the pay of employers is declared
to be just as reasonable as the in
sistence of employers upon securing
the ablest possible persons to repre
sent their own interests.
1Tie statement in part follows:
"The increasing tension between
labor and management in some of the
great industries of the nation cre
ates a serious menace to civic order
and social progress. We have pre
viously expressed our hearty endorse
ment of the policy of the federal gov
ernment, embodied in the national in
dustrial recovery act, affirming the
right of employes, as well as em
ployers, to bargain collectively
through persons freely chosen by
themselves to represent their inter
ests. This principle has long been
advocated by leading church and civic
bodies, and has been amply demon
strated in major industries as prac
ticable and desirable.
"This is not class legislation, but
a guarantee of rights without which
labor cannot hope to maintain its
standards against strongly organized
aggregations of capital when there is
conflict of interests.
"Industry is in a much healthier
state when workers and employers are
alike organized with prescribed rights
and accepted responsibilities.
"Serious conflict has arisen over the
refusal of strong employing groups to
recognize trade unions and their de
termination to limit negotiations with
labor to dealings with their own em
ployes. The reasons for labor's in
sistence upon a broad basis of organ
ization and upon representation of the
workers by persons chosen and paid
by themselves are too plain for argu
ment. They are precisely the same
reasons that impel employers to or
ganize and to secure the ablest rep
resentatives of their own interests,
chosen and paid by themselves.
"We appeal for fair play in accord
with the plain intent of an act of
congress and with a principle for
which the churches have long con
tended. When labor is denied the
right of free choice of representatives
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Federal Council of Churches
Upholds Labor in Demanding
Collective Bargaining Righl
and when employers refuse to deal
with representatives so chosen, the
spirit and purpose of justice and de
mocracy are thwarted.
"We make this appeal, however,
not merely in the interest of what
is known as collective bargaining but
in the interest of democratic social
progress, which requires that the
many functional groups of various
types in modern society shall have
scope for the development of stand
ards and methods of action for which
they may be properly held responsi
ble."
PACKING HOUSE
Strike Brings Out
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Bridgeton, N. J.—State troopers,
constables and county detectives
"•guarded" workers who strung barb
ed wire around the packing plant of
the Seabrook Farms and Koster Nur
series here. The action was taken as
a "precaution" against what company
officials described as attacks by 400
employes on strike for better work
conditions.
The troopers were sent by Gov. A
Harry Moore at the request of County
Prosecutor Thomas G. Tuso, after a
iseries of skirmishes beftween loyal
employes and strikebreakers on the
one side, and strikers on the other.
At least four of the strikers were
reported injured during the battle
that waged across the farmlands sur
rounding the packing plant. A con
stable later arrested Courtney Sea
brook, son of the owner of the prop
erty, on a charge of atrocious assault
and battery.
Gulfport Longshoremen's
Strike Ended
Gulfport, Miss. (ILNS)—The long
shoremen's strike here has been set
tied with this schedule of wages 60
cents an hour between 7 a.m. and
p.m. 75 cents an hour for all other
hours between 4 p. m. and 7 a.
overtime of more than eight hours, 90
cents an hour. The former scale was
50 cents an hour and 60 cents for
overtime.
Rubber Plant Strike Ended
La Crosse, Wis. (ILNS)—A strike
of 1,400 employes of the La Crosse
Rubber Mills Company, which began
April 24, was ended by an agreement
ratified by company executives and
officers of the United Rubber Work
ers' Federal Union. The agreement
contains a clause restraining the
company from making any statements
which "might be construed
mental to the union."
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Average Factory Earnings
Decrease Slightly in May
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Aver
age per capita weekly earnings of
factory workers in May were 0.1 per
cent lower than in April, the Bureau
of Labor Statistics reports. They are
still higher than any other month
since October, 1931, and 20 per cent
higher than in May, 1933.
Payroll reports supplied by 22,718
establishments employing 3,812,160
persons in May, show weekly earnings
of factory employes averaging $19.81.
Gains in May over April were re
ported in 51 of the 90 manufacturing
industries surveyed, the gains rang
ing from 0.2 per cent to 12.7 per cent.
Decreased per capita earnings were
shown in 39 of the manufacturing
plants.
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—The
Dongolia Box Co., Dongolia, 111., has
been ordered to surrender its Blue
Eagle to the local postmaster, the
NRA compliance division announces.
The firm was found to have violat
ed the wage and hours provisions of
the wooden package division of the
lumber and timber products indus
tries code.
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FORCE WORKERS TO
SIGN "YELLOW DOG"
Valdese, N. C. (ILNS)—The "yel
low dog contract" is again being used
as a means of frightening workers
into relinguishing their right to be
come members of a labor union. The
Waldensian Hosiery Mill here which
closed down twelve weeks ago when
the workers organized, has forced its
employes to sign a two-typewritten
page "yellow dog contract" in order
to get their jobs back.
R. O. Huffman, president of the
Southern Hosiery Manufacturers' As
sociation is also a large stockholder
in the Waldesian Mill, reports Larry
Hogan, representative of the Ameri
can Federation of Hosiery Workers.
Apparently this move of the Walden
sian Mill is part of a concerted plan
against the union by the Southern
organization.
The United States Department of
Labor is investigating the situation at
the Waldensian Mills.
"Sheltered Workshops" May
Use NRA Label on Products
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—"Shel
tered workshops" may place NRA la
bels upon their products, and display
NRA insignia, under an order of Na
tional Recovery Administrator John
son. The national sheltered workshop
committee is authorized by the order
to print and issue NRA insignia to
sheltered workshops which sign a
"Sheltered Workshops Pledge of Co
operation and Fair Competition." The
national recovery administration shall
ratify or disapprove the decisions of
the committee that a particular insti
tution is a "sheltered workshop."
Sheltered workshops are charitable
institutions or similar activities con
ducted not for profit but for the pur
pose of providing remunerative em
ployment for physically, mentally or
socially handicapped workers.
Hosiery Code Authority
Recommends Wage Boosts
New York.—A two-day conference
here by the hosiery code authority re
sulted in recommendations for in
creases in certain minimum wage
rates, reduction of work shifts from
40 to 35 hours per week, and an early
complete shutdown of factories for
two weeks to curtail production.
The authority also urged control
over new machinery, investigation in
to the open-price provisions of other
codes and a study of possible limita
tion of the number of machines as
signed ,'to operators in men's *half
hose and women's seamless branches.
FOUNDRY WORKERS STRIKE
Peoria, 111. (ILNS)—Foundry work
ers affiliated with the International
Brotherhood of Foundry Employes
went on strike at the plant of the
Caterpillar Tractor Company, seek
ing union recognition and a standard
ized wage scale.
The union label on any product is a
guarantee that it was made in Amer
ica by American workers.
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